Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-22

derstand that when Lincoln signed the
emancipation proclamation, your victcry
was assured. for he then committed you to
the cause of human liberty against which
the arms of man cannot prevail, while
those of our statesmen who made slavery
the corner stone of the Confederacy doomed
US to defeat committing US to cause that
reason could not defend or the sword main
tain in the light of advancing civilization.
The relations of the Southern people
with the negro are close and cordial. We
remember with what fidelity for four years
he guarded our defenseless women and
children, whose husbands and fathers were
fighting against his freedom. To his eter-
nal credit be it said that whenever he struck
blow for his own liberty he fought in
open battle and when at last he raised his
black and humble hands that the shackles
might be struck off, those hands were inno-
cent of wrong against his helpless charges,
and worthy to be taken in loving grasp by
every man who horrors loyalty and devo-
ton. Ruffians have maltreated him, ras-
Gals have misled him, philanthropists
established bank for him, but the South
with the North protests against injustice 10
this simple and sincere people. To liberty
and enfranchisement is as far as law can
carry the negro. Therest must beleft to
conscience and common sense. It should
be left to those among whom his lot is cast,
with whom he is indissolubly connected,
and whose prosperity depends upon their
possessing his intelligent sympathy and con-
fidence. Faith has been kept with him in
spite of caluminous assertions to the con-
trary. by those who assume to speak for US
or by frank opponents. Faith will be kept
with him in the future, if the South holds
her reason and integrity.
PEOPLE EMAScIPATED BY DEFEAT.
The New South is enamored of her new
work Her soul is stirred with the breath
of a new life. The light of grander day
is falling fair on her face. She is thrilling,
sir, with the consciousness of growing
power and prosperity. As she stands full
statured and equal among the people of
the earth, breathing the keen air and look
ing out upon an expanding horizon. she
understands that her emancipation came
because in the inscrutable wisdom of God
her honest purpose was crossed, and her
brave armies were beaten. This is said in
no spirit of time-serying and apology.
should be unjust to the South if | did not
make this plain in this presence The
South has nothing to take back ; nothing
for which she has excuses to make. In my
native town of Athens is monument that
crowns its central hills-a plain white
shaft Deep cut into its shining sides is
a name dear to me above the names of men.
that of brave and simple man who died
in brave and simple faith. Not for all the
glories of New England from Plymouth
Rock all the way would l exchange the
heritage he left me in his patriots death.
To the foot OF that shaft shall send my
childrens children to reverence him who
ennobled their name with his heroic blood.
But, sir, speaking from the shadow of that
memory, which 1 honor as 1 do nothing
else on earth, / say that the cause in which
he suffered and for which he gave his life
was adiudged by higher and fuller wisdom
than his or mine, and am glad that the
omniscient God held the balance of battle
in his Almighty hand, and that the Ameri-
can Union was saved from the wreck Of war